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Examples
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When Mary got up to investigate, she found baby in the closet at the molasses jug, still crying, "I like it -- I like it motch!"
Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888
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She was quite happy and still in the kitchen; and then I heard her shout, "I like it -- I like it motch!"
Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888
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I asked Mary what it was that baby liked so "motch."
Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888
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You don't eat doo motch, or you will pe pad again, und want dem shdick.
Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure George Manville Fenn 1870
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-- 'combien' -- how motch 'reconnaissance?'"said he," I vill have for them!
Sketches — Complete Robert Seymour 1818
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-- 'combien' -- how motch 'reconnaissance?'"said he," I vill have for them!
Sketches — Volume 05 Robert Seymour 1818
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Now you shdop dat ruck a dongue of yours, und do not dalk zo motch like an old vool, und gom und hafe zom breakfast, or the old frau vill gom after us mit a shdick. "
Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure George Manville Fenn 1870
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"There," he said; "it is a creat teal of money, und I feel ashamed to jarge so motch; but you dell der pig bruder it gost me as motch as effer vas to get die dings oop to mein haus.
Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure George Manville Fenn 1870
mialuthien commented on the word motch
motch – to eat little, slowly, quietly and secretly; to consume or waste imperceptibly, hence, motching, fond of dainties, with the idea of eating in secret; (also) slow, quiet eating, with the idea of fondness for good living; imperceptible use, with the notion of thriftlessness
July 27, 2008